It's been over a month, so here's another early teaser. (Fingers crossed, it shouldn't be too many more weeks before the chapter's finished.) This one's from just before the impromptu Iron Inventor match...
"You remember our deal, don't you?"
Ryoko looked cross for a brief moment, then smiled again. "You don't tell Yuki or the others where I am, and I help you keep the Professor and Ms. Li apart." Then she stopped smiling. "Blackmail's not very nice, Mr. Scott."
"I know, and I'm sorry. But we both know why those two must never meet if he's been awake for more than a few days."
"I don't agree, but I have no choice. I'll distract Ms. Li." As Noah was about to thank Ryoko, she added, "After I tell the Professor exactly where you are." Then she stepped aside through a doorway, which closed and locked as soon as she was through it.
"Why shouldn't this 'Professor' meet Kohran?" asked Makoto.
"It's bad enough that each of them is a 'mad scientist' type with no qualms about inventing anything, no matter what use the invention could be put towards. Letting them collaborate would ... well, I doubt it'd be pleasant for everyone else."
"Ah. Ryoko's quite loyal to him, isn't she?"
"The way I understand it, Ryoko loves the Professor to death."
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"You remember our deal, don't you?"
Ryoko looked cross for a brief moment, then smiled again. "You don't tell Yuki or the others where I am, and I help you keep the Professor and Ms. Li apart." Then she stopped smiling. "Blackmail's not very nice, Mr. Scott."
"I know, and I'm sorry. But we both know why those two must never meet if he's been awake for more than a few days."
"I don't agree, but I have no choice. I'll distract Ms. Li." As Noah was about to thank Ryoko, she added, "After I tell the Professor exactly where you are." Then she stepped aside through a doorway, which closed and locked as soon as she was through it.
"Why shouldn't this 'Professor' meet Kohran?" asked Makoto.
"It's bad enough that each of them is a 'mad scientist' type with no qualms about inventing anything, no matter what use the invention could be put towards. Letting them collaborate would ... well, I doubt it'd be pleasant for everyone else."
"Ah. Ryoko's quite loyal to him, isn't she?"
"The way I understand it, Ryoko loves the Professor to death."
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012